LibGuides: HIST BC2385 Global Environmental History : Writing and Citing

About Citing Your Work

When you cite your work, you give credit to the authors and works you may have used to construct and support your own argument. Academic writing requires citation and your discipline determines the citation style you use in your paper. The most commonly used styles at Barnard are APA, MLA, and Chicago and the citation style depends on the discipline. Because Chicago Style is the preferred one for history, you should use that for your writing in your history classes.

Citation (& the politics of citiation)

Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed.Chicago Manual of Style has full details on citing primary & archival material in Chicago style. You can also the style guide in print.
MLA Citiation Style: An overview that should help you better understand how to cite sources using MLA 9th edition, including how to format the Works Cited page and in-text citations.
Excelsior Online Writing Lab (OWL): OWL has lots of general and subject-specific writing tips and techniques, along with research advice and detailed citation and formatting standards for the APA, MLA, and Chicago styles.

Citation Practices Challenge
A yearlong challenge (2015-2016) organized by Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang, and Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández to urge us to critically reflect on the way we approach referencing the work of others and counter the erasure of Indigenous, Black, brown, trans*, disabled POC, QT*POC, feminist, activist, and disability/crip contributions from our intellectual genealogies..
Cite Black Women.
A movement that engages with social media and aesthetic representation in order to push people to critically rethink the politics of knowledge production by engaging in a radical praxis of citation that acknowledges and honors Black women’s transnational intellectual production.
Gender Balance Assessment Tool (GBAT)
Women are cited less often than men, and are also underrepresented in syllabi. Yet even well-meaning scholars may find that they have difficulty assessing how gender-balanced their bibliographies and syllabi really are. This tool aims to help with that, by automating the process of evaluating the (probabilistic) gender of each name and then providing an estimate of what percentage of the authors on a syllabus are women.
The Importance of Citational Justice
Video tutorial and instructor's guide created by the University of Arizona Libraries.
Citational Politics - Civic Laboratory for Environmental Action Research (CLEAR)
CLEAR has a Citational Politics portal that includes a blog post series, teaching module, and bibliography.
Citational Politics - Pratt Institute Libraries
Video and bibliography to learn more about the politics of citation.

Barnard's guide to Citation Management Software: An in depth guide developed by Barnard Librarians exploring the citation management tools Zotero, Endnote, and Mendely

Which Citation Tool Should I Use? Google Docs version of the Citation Manager table (must have gBear account)
Comparison of reference management software (Wikipedia)

A comparison chart of citation management software from Wikipedia.